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ZAOHARY M. LINDLEY AND WILLIAM H. STERRETT, OF OARTHAGE, MISSOURI; SAID LINDLEY ASSIGNOR TO SAID STERRETT.

BRIDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,731, dated March 15, 1898. Application filed January 23, 1897. Serial No. 620,440. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

' Be it known that we, ZACHARY M. LINDLEY and WILLIAM H. STERRETT, citizens. of the United States, residing at Carthage, in the county of Jasper and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Broom-Bridle, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to broom bridles or clamps, and has forits object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effieient device adapted to encircle and compress the broom-corn to hold it in proper position.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a View of a broom provided with a bridle constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the bridle and broom. Fig. 3 is a detail view in perspective of the bridle and fastening device detached from the broom to show the relative positions of said parts. Fig. at is a detail view of the fastening device detached.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings. I

l designates a band, preferably constructed of sheet metal-such as tin, copper, zinc,or the equivalent thereof-the extremities of said band being overlapped, preferably, at one side of the broom 2. The band is provided contiguous to its extremities with openings 3 for the reception of the parallel arms of a looped staple 4, forming an efficient form of fastening device by which the band may be secured in the desired position upon the broom, and the opposite or continuous side of the band is provided with corresponding openings 5, alined, respectively, with the openings 3 to receive the arms or sides of the staple or fastening device after they have passed through the broom-head. Thus the parallel sides of the staple or fastening device extend transversely through the broom-head and are engaged with opposite approximately parallel sides of the band, whereby the tightening of the staple or fastening device is adapted to compress the broom-head laterally to secure the same against spreading. The extremities of the staple or fastening device may be secured in any preferred manner, as by inserting the same into a central opening 6 in the continuous side of the band, between the openings 5, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 3, and in order to facilitate the insertion of the staple or fastening device the extremities thereof are preferably tapered or pointed, as shown at 7. By folding the extremities of the staple against the inner surface of the continuous side of the band they are held securely in place in opposition to the expanding action of the broom-head in operation.

The opening 6, which is located between the openings 5 in the continuous side of the bridle, is of sufficient size to receive the extremities of both sides of the staple and to admit of the insertion of a suitable tool for bending or folding said extremities after insertion into contact with the inner surface of the band, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

The staple preferably consists of a crosssectionally flat strip of metal, and hence the single intermediate opening 6, provided for the reception of its extremities, provides for the folding of the legs of the staple inwardly to engage in common with this opening without overlapping.

It will be understood that in practice any desired number of bridles constructed as above described may be employed, but with a broom-head of the ordinary size we have found one to be sufficient. In order to secure the proper pressure of the looped portions of the band against the edges of the broom-head, we preferably curve the band downwardly toward its center, whereby said looped portions are arranged in downwardly and outwardly inclined directions. (Shown clearly in Fig. 1,)

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction maybe resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having described our invention, what we claim is- The combination with a broom-head, of a bridle consisting of a single blank of sheet metal, folded upon itself at spaced points to encircle the broom-head, with its extremities overlapping at the center of one side thereof, and provided, respectively, in its continuous side and contiguous to its ends with alined apertures 5 and 3, and in its continuous side with a single aperture 6 located between the spaced apertures 5, and a looped staple consisting of aflat metallic strip havingits closed end arranged to span the overlapping extremities of the bridle, having its arms extended through said alined apertures 3 and 5 and transversely through the broom-head,

and having the portions of its arms which project through the apertures 5 folded inwardly or toward each other, passed inwardly through the single aperture 6, and folded outwardly against the inner surface of said continuous side of the bridle, said aperture 6 being of a width greater than double the thickness of the staple, to provide a space between the inserted extremities of the staple to give access to the interior of the bridle for bending said extremities outwardly, substantially as specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

ZACHARY M. LINDLEY. WILLIAM H. STERRETT. Witnesses:

DELL BERSON, D. B. SLEIGHT. 

